Art History

Yale University Press Congratulates its 2024 CAA Prizewinners

Kobena Mercer, winner of the 2024 Frank Jeett Mather Award for Art Criticism and the author of
Alain Locke and the Visual Arts.

“Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of Afro-modern art and culture.’”—Douglas Field, Times Literary Supplement

Susan Aberth on “Supernatural in America”

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Alex Kitnick on “Lifes”

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Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces
International Conference
May 12-14, 2022
Online.

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/33897/37371

The art critics of The New York Times have selected their favorites from this year’s crop of art books.  Among Roberta Smith’s favorites is “Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee,” by Melissa Wolfe, and published by D. Giles Ltd and Westmoreland Museum of American Art.  

“Doris Lee in Woodstock” by our very own Prof. Tom Wolf is featured in this book.

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is best known as a media theorist—many consider him the founder of media studies—but he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His connections with the art of his own time were largely unexplored, until now. In Distant Early Warning, art historian Alex Kitnick delves into these rich connections and argues both that McLuhan was influenced by art and artists and, more surprisingly, that McLuhan’s work directly influenced the art and artists of his time.

Riemenschneider in Rothenburg
Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City
Katherine M. Boivin, Assistant Professor at Bard College
Penn State University Press, 2021

“Riemenschneider in Rothenburg” should be of great interest to art historians and others. It sheds light on a major figure of the Northern ‘Renaissance’ and also on issues of civic contextualization that are of current interest. The scholarship is thorough and careful. It is, in short, an excellent book.” —Richard Kieckhefer, author of Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley

–   Professor Touloumi joins other NEH Summer Stipends Awardees in pursuing advanced, new research recognized to be of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. In the last five competitions, the NEH Summer Stipends program received an average of 834 applications per year, and made an average of 77 awards per year, for a funding ratio of 9 percent.